Indian Premiere League Cricket. Hey! A public entry!
It's a challenge. I don't really understand the rules. But my interest is mainlined because it is almost a super league. The reaction of the crowd is authentic enthusiasm. The players, officials and commentators come from all over the cricket playing world.
As a baseball fan, I can get the ( Read more... )

It looks as though my default userpic has gone funnybuggers. Help me out here, it is currently something which looks like Jim and Pam from the American version of "The Office." The roles are played by John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer respectively. Also help me... is the American version the one with the epidemic of nanorobots? How widespread ( Read more... )

For one thing, it is a myth that there aren't many American accents. Many of the worst US accents I have heard have been by Americans. But among american accents by non-americans, Hugh Laurie's accent is flawless. Eddie Izzards, of whom I am a big fan, is bad. It's one of those accents which is a bit over done. Ian McShane's accent is not only ( Read more... )

Not that it seems a great consequence, but I'm not leaving Livejournal. Were it not for Livejournal, I would not have met Joanne. It is a written rule of mine not to write about livejournal in livejournal, but it is great idea which just took off. Facebook too. Yeah, I resisted that one. But it brought people I know together after many years ( Read more... )

So, I was doing the dishes. There were some glasses which had dried milk in the bottom, which I had left to soak, in front of my Guinness glass. When I reached to get it my hand hit the bottom of the boiler sending it crashing down with the glass in it and the glass ex-plo-ded. Glass everywhere. I first swept the floor, then I went to get the ( Read more... )

Oh, you'll get no plot spoilers from me. I won't even discuss it. I had to go on a total media blackout so no one would spoil anything for me. Happened when the last book came out. I don't want to know the slightest hint. Shut the &*@$ up! Not the most important thing in the world, but you mind if I enjoy it?
It's cool that England has adult ( Read more... )

I missed Steely Dan at the Hammersmith Apollo. On an unrelated note, I feel really dizzy. Gotta catch a train!

I love music. It is the wind in my sails, the spark in my gunpowder and the blanket of calm over my good night's sleep. Lately I haven't been listening to music much, deliberately. I used to listen to quite a bit, so much that I couldn't name favorites. I used to play music whether it was a favorite trumpet solo or power chords on a guitar. I ( Read more... )

I'm watching the news more than I swore to. It is, more and more, like the news from a sci-fi movie. A couple of days or two I had a bout of homesickness and watched Larry King. I put it on because this sort of show makes me glad I am no longer living in the U.S..
What I saw was a discussion with a "panel of experts" at the time, a senator and a ( Read more... )

If British Humor seems more intelligent at times...and at times it doesn't, it could be because so many of their humorists are very well educated. Bizarrely well educated in fact.
Harry Hill , oh! another person I'd like to see on QI, is a medical doctor. Jo Brand is a psychiatric nurse. Rowan Atkinson has a Masters' in some sort of ( Read more... )